Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won“ The Daughters of Kobani is an unforgettable and nearly...

Eugene Rogan THE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED'A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character sketches, witty asides and...

Clayton E Swisher The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the...

Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon Mahmoud Abbas rose to prominence as a top Palestinian negotiator, became the leader of his nation, and then tragically failed to negotiate a peace agreement....

Christina Lamb From the award-winning co-author of ‘I Am Malala’, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to...

Ece Temelkuran An urgent and unsettling account of Turkey’s descent into tyranny, as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most gifted writers.Starting with the basic question "what is this...

Christopher Phillips An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting...

Jay Solomon From the  Wall Street Journal  reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long...

Asher Susser Since 1921, the Zionist movement, the Hashemites, and Palestinian nationalists have been vying for regional control. In this book, Asher Susser analyzes the evolution of the one- and...

Jack Fairweather Tony Blair always claimed that history would judge his decision to invade Iraq. This revelatory and at times jaw-dropping account of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals...

Toby Harnden January 1, 2011 by Quercus

Louisa B Waugh Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’?From beautiful beaches to sealed...